CIA Chief in Pakistan Ousted as Officials Struggle to Ease Tension

His original ouster from Pakistan came nominally for “medical reasons,” but the CIA station chief for Pakistan won’t be back, officials confirm. The Pakistani government says this is because of “US issues with Pakistan.”

An official with the Pakistani government said that the move was an effort to “quickly repair the damage to their intelligence cooperation” and this is the second time in the past few months that a CIA chief has been ousted from the country.

The CIA has traditionally had a hugely close relationship with Pakistan’s ISI, which is funding in no small part by CIA grant money. This relationship has gone south since the Raymond Davis fiasco, during which the then-acting CIA station chief, in the country nominally as an employee of the US consulate, murdered two people on the streets of Lahore.

Author: Jason Ditz

Ah yes. The CIA. The largest terrorist organisation the world has ever known.

ghouri

It is too late if we have done it earlier then so many Pakistanis would not with so called suicide bombers. CIA provided financed, technical know how, logistic explosives etc.
This is well known in Pakistan as I visited every child told me the stories.

MvGuy

It certainly does not seem that the U.S. wants to stabilize life in Pakistan…. If it is not the neocon dream to de-nuke Pakistan, why ELSE would the CIA wish to sew seemingly endless chaos…??? Doesn't the disorder facilitate the surreptitious movement of men and arms to resist NATO and it's occupation…?? The Trojan horse pres. "O" gives few clues to his real assignment and whom he primarily represents… If "Afpak" is "O's" REAL war, then who is the "O's" REAL enemy…??